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I spent this week dealing with my corporeal form, much like last week. I’ve learned that the allergy medication has some side effects that make my stomach feel not so great. I’ve also learned about a disorder called binocular vision dysfunction<\/a>. I have almost all of the symptoms, but I hadn’t heard of it before. Apparently, it’s a problem of the eyes not working together well that can result in dizziness (often misdiagnosed as vertigo), clumsiness, being scared of driving on the freeway, headaches, and getting tired when reading. I read it and was forced to admit that I’m in this photo and I don’t like it. I emailed my optometrist and she suggested I come in to investigate. I’ll keep everyone posted on this very exciting subject. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consuming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some things I’ve recently read, watched, or bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books and Other Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This week I read Fugitive Telemetry<\/a> by Martha Wells\u2014the sixth book in The Murderbot Diaries\u2014and Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age<\/a> by Donna Zuckerberg (yes, she’s Mark’s sister). My review of Fugitive Telemetry is short and works for all the books in a series: Murderbot is a depressed (and hilarious) robot-person who solves crimes. The books are funny, sweet, and, despite being about a robot, very human. It’s all you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not All Dead White Men deals with a much less fun subject: “men’s rights activists” on the internet. Many “Pick Up Artists” draw inspiration from the classics and claim to be the inheritors of some grand tradition of being sexist assholes. Zuckerberg walks through what these men are getting from the classics and discusses how accurate the interpretation is (general result: middling accuracy). I’ve seen a lot of this junk on the internet for years so I liked having someone take me through it from an academic perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n